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A family name in Vancouver's city directories

The Hemphills

In the city directories 1940 · six people at three addresses

The directories print six people named Hemphill at three addresses in 1940 in three of the city's neighbourhoods. No first name or initials tie one address to another: we can't tell if they're one family. The most under one roof: four Hemphills at 2153 West 51st in 1940.

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Where the Hemphills lived

Each pin is on its own block, numbered as the households below. Today's land, parks, main roads and local areas: City of Vancouver Open Data (Open Government Licence – Vancouver).
  1. 1

    543 Granville Street

    Downtown, 1940

    • R K Hemphill, a manufacturers agent 1940

    Next door in 1940: Leather Gds Burns at 541 and L C Fraser at 545. The block, door by door

  2. 2

    746 West 15th Avenue

    Fairview, 1940

    • Mrs Ivy H Hemphill 1940

    Next door in 1940: W K Noble at 736 and W S Chantrell at 756. The block, door by door

  3. 3

    2153 West 51st Avenue

    Kerrisdale, 1940

    • R K Hemphill, a manufacturers agent 1940
    • Helen M Hemphill, a telephone operator at the CBC 1940
    • O Mary Hemphill, a stenographer 1940
    • Roy D Hemphill, a clerk at the Canadian Government 1940

    Next door in 1940: T McC Lyall at 2135 and D Murphy Jr at 2157. The block, door by door

What they did

The name section prints a trade for four of the six: a clerk, a manufacturers agent, a stenographer and a telephone operator.

Their neighbourhoods

The addresses are in Downtown, Fairview and Kerrisdale. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.

The story, address by address

In 1940 the directory lists R K Hemphill, a manufacturers agent, at 543 Granville Street. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mrs Ivy H Hemphill at 746 West 15th Avenue. In 1940 the directory lists R K Hemphill at 2153 West 51st Avenue. The 1940 name section lists R Ken Hemphill there as the householder, a manufacturers agent, with Helen M Hemphill, a telephone operator at the CBC, O Mary Hemphill, a stenographer, and Roy D Hemphill, a clerk at the Canadian Government.

Today

2153 West 51st still has its building from before 1946, dated 1926 by the City's record; 543 Granville (1995) has a newer building, by the City's record; the City no longer lists 746 West 15th, so that building is probably gone (inferred).

Every line as printed

All 7 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
1940

British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section

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Sources

Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under H. Want a name removed? Tell us.